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NO NEGATIVITY. “When I first knew [him], I used to think that he watched himself, and would not allow his tongue to give expression to fretfulness, antipathy, complaint, and remonstrance. It did not occur to me as possible that these mental states could be absent in him. After long observation, however, I satisfied myself that such absence or unconsciousness was entirely real.” (Dr Bucke on the poet Walt Whitman). https://lnkd.in/d5aiMCmu View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER. “High precision particle astrophysics as a new window on the universe with an Antimatter Large Acceptance Detector In Orbit (ALADInO).” https://lnkd.in/du8rYCYD View in LinkedIn

CALL FOR CORROBORATION. “The authors document the methodological and statistical criteria for these determinations and recommend that analogous investigations be conducted elsewhere.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

EXPECTATIONS. “Whatever the experimental results, they will have important repercussions on our understanding of the evolution of our universe.” (The end of this exciting paper). https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

TANTALIZING DATA. “The Phanerozoic polar-wander curve for stable Europe is well established. Strikingly, Bazhenov et al. demonstrated that nearly all paleomagnetic poles for Precambrian rocks 600 to 1700 m.y. old from the Fennoscandian and Ukrainian shields and the western Urals lie so close to that curve as to make random overlaps of independent “Precambrian” and Phanerozoic curves unlikely (Fig. 32c).” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the extraordinary efforts of Professor Warren to change a geology paradigm that probably helped explain the Cambrian explosion 600 million years ago, and how entrenched dogmas resisted his work. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. “Images of the Eagle Nebula show the Hubble Space Telescope's ability to capture pictures in both visible (left) and infrared (right) light. NASA is celebrating the successful restart of the telescope's payload computer, opening the door to more observations.”" " https://lnkd.in/ddZZNyaT View in LinkedIn

Somewhat macabre dolls at the (excellent) Figueres Toy Museum, in Catalonia near the French border. View in LinkedIn

SENSES = BIOLOGICAL + CULTURAL. “Anthropological work focused on the senses is founded on the insistence that the senses are not merely a biological ground on which cultural meanings are constructed. Rather, the senses are always already fully cultural, and “sensory perception is a cultural as well as physical act.” https://lnkd.in/dTt-pFhv View in LinkedIn

SENSITIVITY NEEDED. “Antimatter particles in CRs represent a small fraction of the total flux, about 5 × 10(−3) for e+, 10(−5) for anti-p, 10(−7) for anti-D, less than 10(−8) for anti-4He or heavier antinuclei: these tiny fluxes, however, carry a great amount of information, since the origin of antiparticles is intimately related to fundamental processes.” (CR = cosmic rays). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn